Heh! I love the blatant self-serving political propaganda that is woven through those quotes, BB, and that takes itself for granted. The stuff like...

"Should the United States allow a country openly hostile to it...blah, blah, blah..."

LOL! The USA is itself openly hostile toward North Korea, and has been so ever since I can remember. It was George Bush who labelled North Korea, Iran and Iraq as an "Axis of Evil", and implied that he would feel free to take military action against them at any time...and he has the literal means to do it! Why would it be surprising that countries a superpower directly threatens with the most inflammatory hostile rhetoric should themselves BE openly hostile in return?

Wouldn't that be a normal human reaction to a direct threat?

Duh.

But, no, the USA is apparently allowed to do what no one else in this world is allowed to do (except Israel?). It is allowed to threaten anyone it wants to, any time it wants to. It is allowed to pre-emptively attack anyone it wants to, any time it wants to...and why? Oh, well, because the USA is GOOD...(ha, ha)...the USA is our saviour (ha, ha)...the USA is the right hand of God upon this Earth and it can do no wrong. Bleah. The USA is just as self-serving in its own militaristic propaganda as North Korea is...but here's the key difference: the USA can pose a mortal threat to the lives of all North Koreans. North Korea cannot possibly do that to the USA. Their ability to realistically threaten the USA is comparable to an ant threatening to bit a very large man who has a blowtorch. Yes, the ant may manage to deliver one painful bite to the man...and then it will be stepped on and incinerated.

What a ridiculous situation it is, when the world biggest aggressor superpower claims the moral right to threaten and pre-emptively attack small countries supposedly to protect itself! What gall. What hypocrisy. What blantant pretensions of moral superiority.

2. Here's another marvelous piece of manipulative and totally idiotic propaganda, intended to make an American reader imagine that North Korea is really a threat to him and his neighbours:

"North Korea's missile tests last week caused no injuries or damage, but...."

Well....DUH! Missile tests are not supposed to cause any injuries or damage to anyone! Missile tests are done to see if the missile works properly, and that's all there is to it. Every country that has missiles does missile tests for that purpose. Of COURSE the missile tests caused no injury or damage to anyone. Why the hell would they??????? They were tests, remember? Tests are not done to cause injury or damage, they're done to see if the missile functions correctly.

These are examples of the way manipulative propaganda is blandly inserted into political rhetoric in order to build a mood of paranoia in a public and prepare them to go to war. Goebbels did it. Stalin did it. The North Koreans do it. The USA does it. Every aggressor nation that wants to justify its own aggressive plans to attack others does this sort of thing.

What a collection of scoundrels they all are, these politicians.